Energy

Insurance Policyholder and Patient Association

March 30, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Q&A</h3> <p>WHAT IS AN INSURANCE POLICYHOLDER AND PATIENT ASSOCIATION? An Insurance Policyholder and Patient Association (IPPA) is a non-profit, statewide organization of insurance consumers. IPPA will advocate for fair and reasonable insurance rates and quality</p>

The High Price of Gasoline Is All About Power

March 16, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<!-- excerpt --><p>The consistently high gasoline prices in the California have been blamed on price "spikes" caused by shortages of fuel due to California refinery outages, crude oil production cuts by the OPEC cartel and California's special clean-burning fuel.</p>

Break Oil Companies’ Hold On Gas Prices

March 16, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>The consistently high gasoline prices in the Bay Area have been blamed on price "spikes" caused by shortages of fuel due to California refinery outages, crude oil production cuts by the OPEC cartel and California's special clean-burning fuel standards.</p>

Oaks Organizer Skills

February 8, 2000  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<!-- excerpt --><p>Oaks Project volunteer organizers are trained in these political and civic skills, which are essential to effective grassroots organizing.</p>

Lynch ready to energize PUC post

January 30, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Longtime Davis ally expected to be named commission president</h3><p class="source">San Francisco Examiner</p> <p>Never one to straddle the fence, Loretta Lynch climbed over one last spring to get to an important meeting with Gov. Davis and a land developer</p>

The High Price of Advocacy

October 28, 1998  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>My problem, I began, clearly and to the point, is David Horowitz. Not Horowitz in any personal way--I barely know him--but Horowitz being a paid spokesman for No on Prop. 9, the big-budget, big utilities-driven campaign to zap the underdog California ball</p>

BP “Green” Gas Station

March 19, 1998  ·  Consumer Watchdog

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What Is Wrong with California’s 1996 Deregulation Plan

September 1, 1997  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<!-- excerpt --><p>Electricity is too vital to leave in the hands of unregulated power companies. California's 1996 deregulation law took a bad idea and made it even worse.</p>